Honorable Treachery: A History of U. S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIAby O'Toole, G. J. A.

Dramatically recounts every important intelligence operation since the country's founding, including how President Washington mounted a covert operation to ransom American hostages in the Middle East; how in 1897, German plans for an invasion of the US were scuppered by the director of the Office of Naval Intelligence; and how President Woodrow Wilson created a secret agency to compile intelligence for the peace negotiations at the end of World War I.